Is backup and recovery unnecessarily draining your budget and resources? This report measures the TCO of an enterprise environment using various data protection models, including tape, virtual tape library, and data deduplication solutions. Learn how each stacks up in this comparative report.
Reducing Costs in the Data Center
Comparing Costs and Benefits
of Leading Data Protection Technologies
November 2007
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Table of Contents
The Increasingly Costly Data Center...............................................................................................1
Meeting Data Center Needs............................................................................................................2
Typical Backup Scenario.................................................................................................................4
Benefits of DeltaStor Deduplication.................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
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The Increasingly Costly Data Center
ata managers are finding themselves in a crisis. Data volumes are growing exponentiallyevery year. According to Paul P. Tallon, professor of information systems at Boston 1College, "Corporate data is estimated to be growing at over five exabytes per annum."DCompanies are not only generating more primary data, they are required to back up and retainthat data many times over its life cycle. This process creates even larger volumes of data to be managed. With a retention period of one year for weekly full backups and 10 days for daily incre-mental backups, a single terabyte (TB) of data requires 53 TB of capacity for data protection over itslife cycle.
Capacity Requirements for Data ProtectionAt the same time, senior managers and regulators are demanding higher levels of 1 TB X 52 weeks (one year retention)service, longer online retention times, and +.1 (10% incremental change) higher levels of data protection. Many data X 10 days (retention)___________________centers have simply run out of space, power, 53 TBand cooling capacity. According to a recentGartner report, "By 2008, 50 percent of current data centers will have insufficient power and2cooling capacity to meet the demands of high-density equipment."
The rising cost of power, the increased power requirements of dense rack systems, and theshortage of power capacity are converging to make reducing power consumption a critical goalfor data center managers. Gartner predicts that "through 2009, energy costs will emerge as the3second highest operating cost in 70 percent of worldwide data center facilities.
Few IT budgets are keeping pace with this growth or with rising energy costs, labor costs, andother operational costs. The bottom line: data managers have more data to protect and muchless time, space, and money allocated to protecting it than ever before.
®This paper will compare the cost and efficiency of a SEPATON S2100 -ES2 VTLwithTM TMContentAware DeltaStor data deduplication software to other common backup and recoverytechnologies. It will demonstrate that an S2100-ES2 VTLwith DeltaStor software can not onlyaddress all of an enterprise's data back up and recovery needs, it can also save as much as 88percent of the associated operating costs.
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Meeting Data Center NeedsToday's enterprise data managers need a solution that can meet a variety of complex data pro-tection needs while containing costs in the data center. Specifically, they need a solution that:
. Backs up data fast enough to stay within shrinking windows . Meets more stringent SLAs by maintaining data, document and application availability. Addresses "green" environmental initiatives by using less power and floor space. Enables them to meet regulatory requirements for data security, retention times, andrestore times. Automates manual tasks and eliminates staff intervention to reduce labor costs. Enables simple, affordable scalability of both performance and capacity as data volumesgrow exponentially. Ensures data integrity throughout backup, retention, and restore processes
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